Three
Memorial Day War
Heroes Honored

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. - Three air commandos, including Capt.
Jeremy Fresques
of Clarkdale, Ariz., were posthumously awarded Bronze Stars during a
memorial
service Friday for missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and other trouble
spots.

Those missions included their last, on Monday - Memorial Day
2005 - in
Iraq. A small Iraqi air-force plane they were using to find and survey
remote
landing sites crashed about 80 miles northeast of Baghdad.

An Air Force and Iraqi pilot also died in the crash of the
Florida-built
Comp Air 7SL, a single-engine, utility and surveillance plane. The
cause
remains under investigation.

"These heroes died defending a cause each of us in uniform
staunchly
believes in," Col. O.G. Mannon, commander of the 16th Special
Operations
Wing. "Their service, their gift to our nation and to the world was an
unfaltering commitment to freedom."

More than 1,000 fellow airmen, family members
and dignitaries filled a hangar at this Air Force base, where the three
had been stationed. A huge U.S. flag hung behind the speaker's podium.

Three automatic rifles were displayed upright
with soldier's helmets atop of them to commemorate two special-tactics
officers, Fresques and Capt. Derek Argel, 28, of Lompoc, Calif., and
Staff Sgt. Casey Crate, 26, of Spanaway, Wash.

All three were Combat Controllers specialized
in calling in
airstrikes,
conducting search and rescue missions and assessing remote landing
areas.

Our Good Friend Marty also passed on this summer and left some
words of
value spoken to us through his wife Jana Martinez. Each
Memorial Day
I will always Recall....Some Gave All! Thank You Marty!

"All
Gave Some, But Some Gave All
For The Red, White, And Blue… Some Had To Fall
So When You Think Of Me,
Think Of All Your Liberties And Recall…..Some
Gave All"

CAPT
JEREMY FRESQUES; 1978-2005

Capt
Jeremy Fresques, a Special Tactics Officer assigned to the 23d Special
Tactics Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida, perished on 30 May 2005 in
the crash of an Iraqi Air Force SL7 reconnaissance/transport airplane.
Captain Fresques was participating in an operational mission in support
of Operation Iraqi Freedom when the aircraft crashed in the Divala
Province of Iraq about 80 miles northeast of Baghdad.

Born
in Farmington, New Mexico, Captain Fresques was accepted into the
United States Air Force Academy after graduating from high school.
While at the Academy, he earned a degree in Environmental Engineering
and entered the active Air Force in 2001. His first assignment was as
Flight Commander, 56th Communications Squadron, Luke Air Force Base,
Arizona. In 2002, Captain Fresques successfully completed Special
Tactics Officer selection and training, earning his red beret.

After
graduating from Class 06 of the Advanced Skills Training course at
Hurlburt Field, Captain Fresques was assigned to the 23d Special
Tactics Squadron and was serving his first tour of duty in Afghanistan
and Iraq.

Captain
Fresques’ awards include the Bronze Star Medal With Valor
Device, Air
Force Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and the
Global War on Terrorism Medal. He is
survived by his wife, Lindsey.

"We sleep safe in our beds
because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence to those
who mean us harm!"

Air Force captain killed
in Iraq crash

Memorial Day
will never be the same for the tight-knit family of Air Force Capt.
Jeremy Fresques.

Alongside three fellow
soldiers, the 26-year-old commando with Arizona ties - who had been
promoted to captain that morning - died Monday in a plane crash during
a training mission near Baghdad.

Fresques is the 52nd
soldier with Arizona ties killed in the Iraqi war. Three other soldiers
with Arizona connections have died in Afghanistan.

A graduate of the
prestigious Air Force Academy in Colorado, Fresques was married for a
little more than a year. He lived in Florida with his wife, Lindsey,
who is also an officer in the Air Force, said Chuck Shaw, Jeremy's
father-in-law.

"They had an excellent
marriage, loved each other very much," Shaw said. "He's going to be
very sorely missed, and we couldn't have been more proud."

Lindsey Fresques
graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder before joining the
Air Force and heading to Florida. The couple worked at bases near
Destin, Fla., down the street from each other, Shaw said.

Fresques had been chief
of communications and an information officer at Luke Air Force Base in
Glendale before transferring to special operations in 2002.

He was set to return home
next month after being deployed earlier this year. He and his wife had
yet to decide whether they would stay in the military. The couple had
no children, Shaw said.

"They were taking it day
by day," he said.

Fresques' mother and
father lived in Clarkdale, south of Flagstaff, before moving to Yuma.
Neither was available for comment Wednesday.

Fresques died when a
single-engine Iraqi air force plane crashed during a training mission
near Jalula, about 50 miles northeast of Baquba.

The cause of the crash
has not been determined, Air Force Master Sgt. Randy Phelps said.

Other Americans killed in
the crash were Maj. William Downs, 40, of Winchester, Va.; Capt. Derek
Argel, 28, of Lompoc, Calif.; and Staff Sgt. Casey Crate, 26, of
Spanaway, Wash. Fresques, Argel and Crate were assigned to the Air
Force 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, while Downs was part of the 6th
Special Operations Squadron. All were based at Hurlburt Field, Fla.

relayed to us from Bob Holmes

"Question of the day for Luke Air Force Base: Whom do we thank
for the
morning air show? Last Wednesday, at precisely 9:11 a.m., a tight
formation
of four F-16 jets made a low pass over Arrowhead Mall, continuing west
over
Bell Road at approximately 500 feet. Imagine our good fortune! Do the
Tom
Cruise-wannabes feel we need this wake-up call, or were they trying to
impress
the cashiers at Mervyns' early-bird special? Any response would be
appreciated."

The reply is classic, and a testament to the professionalism
and heroism
of the folks in the armed services. The response:

Quote: Regarding "A wake-up call from Luke's jets" (Letters,
Thursday):
On June 15, at precisely 9:12 a.m., a perfectly timed four-ship of
F-16s
from the 63rd Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base flew over the
grave
of Capt Jeremy Fresques.

Capt. Fresques was an Air Force officer who was previously
stationed at
Luke Air Force Base and was killed in Iraq on May 30, Memorial Day. At
9
a.m. on June 15, his family and friends gathered at Sunland Memorial
Park
in Sun City to mourn the loss of a husband, son and friend.

Based on the letter writer's recount of the flyby, and because
of the
jet noise, I'm sure you didn't hear the 21-gun salute, the playing of
taps,
or my words to the widow and parents of Capt. Fresques as I gave them
their
son's flag on behalf of the president of the United States and all
those
veterans and servicemen and women who understand the sacrifices they
have
endured. A four-ship flyby is a display of respect the Air Force pays
to
those who give their lives in defense of freedom. We are professional
aviators
and take our jobs seriously, and on June 15 what the letter writer
witnessed
was four officers lining up to pay their ultimate respects.

The letter writer asks, "Whom do we thank for the morning air
show?" The
56th Fighter Wing will call for you, and forward your thanks to the
widow
and parents of Capt. Fresques, and thank them for you, for it was in
their
honor that my pilots flew the most honorable formation of their lives.

Lt. Col. Scott Pleus
CO 63rd Fighter Squadron
Luke Air Force Base

CITATION
TO ACCOMPANY THE AWARD OF
THE BRONZE STAR MEDAL
(WITH VALOR)
TO

CAPTAIN JEREMY J. FRESQUES

Captain
Jeremy J. Fresques distinguished himself by heroism as a Special
Tactics Officer, 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, 720th Special Tactics
Group, Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command, while engaged
in ground combat against an enemy of the United States from 17 February
2005 to 30 May 2005. During this period, Captain Fresques served as
Director of Operations managing forty-two special tactics Combat
Controllers and combat weathermen supporting Operations IRAQI FREEDOM
and ENDURING FREEDOM. His air-to-ground interoperability was critical
while serving as a special tactics liaison during an eleven hour RC-135
Rivet Joint mission in southern Afghanistan. Captain Fresques provided
the Rivet Joint technicians with critical situational awareness of
ground scheme of maneuver as well as direct communications with special
forces elements on the ground, ensuring the safe movement of coalition
teams in the area protecting American and coalition lives. His proven
combat skills and leadership made him the perfect choice to lead a
landing zone operations team into the Horn of Africa to conduct landing
zone safety officer training to the Combined Joint Task Force to
re-supply units throughout Ethiopia. Captain Fresques’ expert
guidance and risk assessment in this extremely hostile environment
ensured the safety of his team and resulted in one hundred percent
mission effectiveness. Upon assuming duties as the 23d Expeditionary
Special Tactics Squadron Director of Operations, he submitted, tracked,
and de-conflicted all time-critical Joint Tactical Air Requests. His
actions ensured the safe recovery of friendly ground forces, while
eliminating any future threat from twelve anti-coalition personnel.
Furthermore, Captain Fresques led a five-man landing zone and survey
team to conduct multiple landing zone surveys while supporting the 6th
Special Operations Squadron’s re-supply of the 10th Special
Forces Group. It was during this Memorial Day mission on 30 May 2005
Captain Fresques made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. By his
heroic actions and unselfish dedication to duty in the service of his
country, Captain Fresques has reflected great credit upon himself and
the United States Air Force.

Jeremy
Fresques never gave up. Not ever, not at any time in his life.

When
one
of his fellow cadets at the AirForceAcademy
could not finish his pushups, Fresques wiggled under the cadet and
supported the
exhausted man on his back. Then Fresques helped the other cadet finish
his
pushups. Fresques was tough, but he was also kind and deeply spiritual.
And he
loved Oreo cookies.

"He
had the biggest heart and the most drive of anyone I ever knew," said
Nick
Fresques, Jeremy's father.

The
Air
Force first lieutenant, who grew up in Farmington,
was disqualified from becoming a pilot because of his eyesight.

He
worked
as a public-affairs officer in the Air Force until the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks galvanized
him to take a more active role in the U.S.
war against terrorism.

He
went
through two years of training to become a special operations Air Force
commando. Out of his class of about 36, only three graduated.

"He
had the determination to excel at anything," said his mother, Sherry
Fresques.

During
training to become a commando, Jeremy Fresques met the woman he would
fall in
love with. It was a Top Gun love story, his mother says.

Lindsay
Shaw, a captain in the Air Force, was teaching one of his classes.
Jeremy Fresques
was normally shy around girls and never seemed to realize how many of
them had
crushes on him. But Shaw was bold -- she asked him to dinner. They had
been
married a little more than a year when he died.

Jeremy
Fresques' determination included the video games he often played with
his
brother, Justin. In Iraq,
not a single soldier could beat Jeremy at Halo.

When Justin heard his older
brother was undefeated, he sent an e-mail with instructions on "how to
beat Jeremy" to the guys in his brother's unit. The last e-mail the
Fresques family got from their son before his death was responding to
these instructions.

"Justin,"
it read, "I have no weakness. I have evolved."

USA
Today

May
26, 2006
Pg. 1

Widows bound by
true meaning of Memorial Day

By
Rick
Hampson, USA
Today

More
than
850 Americans have been killed in Iraq
and Afghanistan
since last Memorial
Day. For many of their loved ones, the day's meaning has been
transformed. This
Memorial Day will feel like their first.

Memorial
Day
2005: America
is at the park, in the water, around the grill. At a walleye fishing
tournament
in Dubuque,
Iowa,
a lawn mower race in Hillsborough, N.J.,
a techno-music festival in Detroit.
Dania Jai-Alai near Miami
offers free U.S.
flag magnets, while supplies last.

There
are
countless sack races, eating contests and tugs of war, endless sales on
everything from RVs to bikinis. All patriotic T-shirts are $5 at eight
Sears
stores in greater Phoenix,
while supplies last.

This
is how
most of us spend Memorial Day, an occasion for remembrance that
morphed,
through years of peace, into beer, ball, boats and barbecue.

But
three
years of war have revived the holiday's original meaning. Today, for
the
families of two young Air Force officers, the gateway to summer will
become a
portal to grief.

In
Iraq,
Derek Argel and Jeremy Fresques — both Air Force Academy
class of 2001, both
commandos, both promoted this day to captain — prepare to fly
off on a
classified mission.

In
Fort
Walton Beach, Fla.,
Capt. Argel's wife, Wendy, sits down at the computer as their
10-month-old son,
Logan,
plays on
the floor. She wants Derek to have an e-mail from her when he gets back.

The
television
shows scenes of parades and cemetery services. In the e-mail's subject
field,
she types, “Memorial Day.”

In nearby Destin,
Fla.,
Capt. Fresques' wife, Lindsey, also an Air Force captain, joins the
annual
“Gate to Gate” road race at Eglin Air Force Base.
She and other runners drop
carnations at the base Veterans Memorial as they jog past.I

In Yuma, Ariz.,
Fresques' father, Nick, has gotten a call from his wife, Sherry,
(pictured left) asking him to
come home early from work. After all, it's Memorial Day.
In Santa
Barbara, Calif.,
Argel's mother, Debbie, enjoys a poolside martini in her
father-in-law's
backyard.

All
are
patriotic Americans who have relatives at war. Still, for them as for
almost
everyone else, Memorial Day is 90% recreation and 10% recollection.
Before the day
is over, that will change forever.

More
than a
dozen communities claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day, including
Waterloo, N.Y., (designated as such by Congress in 1966); Columbus,
Miss.
(recognized by the Library of Congress in 1958); and Boalsburg, Pa.,
where in
1864 three women started a tradition of decorating Civil War soldiers'
graves
with flowers.

On
May 30, 1868, Union
veterans first officially observed Decoration Day. Over the next
century, a
succession of wars swelled the importance of what became known as
Memorial Day.

In
1971,
Congress divorced Memorial Day from May 30, making it the last Monday
in May.
By 2000, the day's original meaning had become so subsumed in the
festive
three-day weekend that Congress passed the national Moment of
Remembrance Act,
asking for a moment of silence at 3 p.m.

Years
of
peace also took their toll. For many, Memorial Day was old men walking
around
in funny hats and outfits wearing obscure ribbons and medals
— forgotten heroes
of forgotten wars.

In
Farmington,
N.M.,
where Jeremy Fresques grew up, his mother mostly recalls the kids'
baseball
games and soccer tournaments. His father sums it up:
“Memorial Day was a
picnic.”
In Lompoc,
Calif.,
where Derek Argel grew up near Vandenberg Air Force Base, Memorial Day
was
different. The main street was lined with flags. Hundreds of people
gathered at
the cemetery. A clergyman read the names of the war dead, Scouts placed
a flag
on every veteran's grave and a bugler played taps.

Derek's
grandfather was a career Marine who fought in World War II.

In
the sixth
grade, Derek wrote that on Memorial Day, “We should put the
flag out at our
homes, and go to the service at the cemetery. On this day we show
respect to
the veterans who risked their lives or were killed protecting our
freedom and
flag. I am happy to see them put a little flag on my grandfather's
grave.”

In
Iraq
on
Memorial Day 2005, Fresques, 26, and Argel, 28, have made captain.
However,
there's no time for a promotion ceremony. Because they're on a mission,
they're
not even wearing their new silver bars. A promotion “would
have been the last
thing on their minds,” says Col. Kenneth Rodriquez, their
group commander.
“These guys were very mission-focused.”

Only
a few
cadets from each Air Force Academy class are selected to wear the red
beret of the
Air Force's Special Tactics unit. They're called Combat Controllerlers, a dry
term for shock troops trained to land in hostile territory, set up and
protect
landing fields, and direct aircraft into them.

Argel:
water polo star,
6-5, 210, 4% body fat. Wanted to go to the Air Force Academy so badly
he
attended two prep schools after high school to get in. On a whim,
entered
academy boxing tournament, having never boxed before, and made the
finals,
losing a split decision. Set so many records in commando training he
had to lug
a hunk of driftwood as handicap.

Fresques:
hard worker, deep
thinker. Considered military academies because he didn't want to get a
loan to
attend University
of Arizona.
Joked that he
chose Colorado
Springs
over West Point
because female cadets were
better looking; said the Air Force treated officers better. Found Jesus
in his
senior year at the academy. Upon seeing copy of Maxim, the men's
magazine, on
the desk of a superior officer, he said, “Sir, you aren't
going to read that,
are you?” Disqualified by eyesight for flight school, he
became a
communications officer. Applied for elite special ops unit after
deciding that
he'd “go crazy sitting at a desk.” Meet Nick and Sherry Fresques, click here.

Argel,
a
rising star in Special Tactics, has decided to make
a career of it.
Fresques plans to leave the Air Force in 2006 and possibly go into real
estate.
Both will finish their tour in a month and go home.

“I'm
definitely ready,” Fresques e-mails his parents on May 26.
Three days later he
writes in his journal that he's not afraid of dying, only
“the process of
dying.” He says his fondest desire is to be
“raptured with Lindsey” into heaven
to be with Jesus.

In
the early
afternoon, a holiday rooted in wars past is transformed by news from
war today:

Four
U.S.
airmen and
an Iraqi Air Force pilot were killed when their light plane crashed and
exploded into flames 80 miles northeast of Baghdad. The
plane went down about an hour
after takeoff from Kirkuk.
The cause of the crash was under investigation.

Wendy
Argel
is on an errand when she gets a call from her mother at home with
little Logan.
There are soldiers
there to see her.

Wendy's
father was an Air Force pilot. She knows what that means.

While
she
was writing that e-mail, her husband was dead.

A
few miles
away, Lindsey Fresques is bustling around her town house getting ready
for a
barbecue when there's a knock on the door. Four soldiers are standing
there.

One
is a
major who attended her wedding, and the look on his face says this will
be the
worst day of her life. The carnation she'd dropped at the memorial had
been for
her own husband.

The
young
widows spread the sad news. Wendy reaches her mother-in-law in Santa Barbara.
Debbie sinks to her knees. Her
husband thinks she's having a stroke.

In
Iraq,
where an
investigation will later rule out hostile fire and mechanical failure,
only a
few personal items are recovered from the wreckage. They include a
silver cross
Jeremy had bought in Jerusalem
and wore around his neck, and Derek's gold wedding ring.

Some
of the
human remains are burned too badly for identification. Later, these
intermingled ashes will be buried at ArlingtonNationalCemetery.
The pilot will become the first Iraqi interred there.

Four
days
after the crash, a ceremony is held in a hangar at Hurlburt Field in Florida,
where the four
airmen were based. Each is awarded the Bronze Star. Each soldier is
represented
by combat boots, a rifle, a helmet and, of course, a red beret.

This
year,
for the friends and relatives of Jeremy and Derek, Memorial Day will be
no
picnic.

Nick
Fresques: “It always meant something to me, but it wasn't a
real important day.
I didn't know anyone real close that even served in a war. Now that my
son …
Now it's completely different. Until something like this happens,
unfortunately,
it's hard to realize the true meaning of Memorial Day.”

Sherry
Fresques: “It's a new experience for me, picking out what to
put on your son's
grave. I've selected two white roses, symbolizing purity, as well as a
spray of
red, white and blue stars that kind of reminds me of fireworks
— Jeremy loved
fireworks. And I'll probably put up this little flagpole. The flag's
one of
those sparkly ones.”

Wendy
Argel:
“Memorial Day is a big deal down here, but I know in some
other places it's
not. But we're living in wartime. I hope people remember that. It's not
just
numbers. One of those numbers happens to be my husband.”

Lindsey
Fresques: “It reminds you that there really are people who
make sacrifices.
Jeremy and I used to think, ‘You go in and do your time, and
then you get out.'
So what happened makes the meaning and honor of military service a lot
more
real.”

Debbie
Argel
Bastian: “Memorial Day will always be difficult for me now,
but it will also
have so much more honor attached to it.”

For
tough
guys, Derek and Jeremy were never very aggressive around women.

Wendy
basically picked up Derek, making eyes at him in a bar on St. Patrick's
Day.
Lindsey and Jeremy met when she was his superior officer and instructor
in air
traffic training school. Taking a cue from Top Gun, she passed him a
note
inviting him to dinner.

Now
there's
an overwhelming sense of what might have been. Derek was away for about
half of
his two-year marriage. Jeremy was overseas on his only wedding
anniversary.
Wendy wears Derek's ring around her neck. Lindsey wears Jeremy's cross
around
hers.

Last month,
Wendy and Lindsey went sky diving, each for the first time, doing
something
their guys enjoyed doing.

On Memorial
Day, they'll be at Walt Disney World, where Wendy's looking forward to
the roller
coasters. “It's the adrenaline,” she says.
“You can't help but smile.”

Disney —
“the happiest place on earth,” Lindsey says,
reciting Walt's famous claim. But
there's a touch of irony in her voice, suggesting that there are days
when
there are no happy places on earth, and that this Memorial Day could be
one of
them.

5/31/2007 - HURLBURT FIELD, Fla.
(AFPN) -- Members of the 720th Special Tactics Group dedicated
a state-of-the-art training center and an adjacent roadway here May 30 in honor
of four air commandos killed in the line of duty in recent operations.

Maj. Brian Downs from
another Hurlburt Field unit, the 6th Special Operations Squadron, and an Iraqi
pilot were also killed in that crash.

Exactly two years
after the crash, a team of special tactics operators fast-roped from an MH-53
helicopter with a U.S. flag to hoist above a new training facility that will
enshrine the names of their fallen comrades forever.

The
street adjacent to the facility was named Servais Way, in honor of Senior
Airman Adam Servais who was killed Aug. 19, 2006, while engaged with enemy
fighters in southern Afghanistan.

"It means a lot to us that the street is forever
named after Adam," said his mother, Sue Servais of Onalaska, Wis.
"When you go through this grief and loss, sometimes you want the world to
stop just for you, but everybody's lives go on. This is a way to keep his
memory alive."

2006 Merrick World
Championship Offshore Racing

OSS also honors Captain Jeremy Fresques, who served as
Combat Controller in the USAF. He lost his life in Iraq on May 30th 2005. Capt.
Fresques is survived by his wife Lindsey, his father Nick, mother Sherry and
brother Justin. His family is working with our local race producer in Destin and will be our guest on a pace boat.

You should have seen
the surprise on their faces when I popped up and said, smile.

What were the chances of me running into Nick, Lindsey, and
Justin Fresques on the high seas?I
wondered why Sherry wasn’t on the boat and saw her immediately as I arrived for
the CCT Reunion banquette.She told me they could
only take three of them, and then inquired how I knew she wasn’t there.

I said Nick didn’t tell you, I was the race starter?Then I proceeded to bullshit her and she
wondered in disbelief as I explained I was the Flag Holder and riding on the
Pace Boat, starting the races.

When Nick walked up, she knew she had me, and immediately
said; “Nick, you didn’t tell me you saw Mac out there.”She about fell over when he verified I was on
the Pace Boat.

I just said; “Damn Sherry, if I knew you needed a ride I
could of put you on my boat.”And then I
just walked away having to park the car I left outside the Ramada
entrance.I know Sherry’s still trying
to figure out where my bullshit ends and the story starts, but this was so
weird, I don’t even believe it myself................

The Jeremy J. Fresques Memorial Scholarship

The Jeremy
J. Fresques Memorial Scholarship has been established by the wife and
parents of Jeremy J. Fresques and created to provide a scholarship to a
full-time student who has attained academic excellence at Farmington
High School, who plans to attend full-time college, who submits written
answers to the questions in the application, and who otherwise
demonstrates the ability to withstand negative peer pressure and
desires to better society.

Many
things about Jeremy’s life make him exceptional. You could say
that Jeremy exemplifies the hope of every young American boy who
carries a GI Joe and dreams about rising from humble beginnings to
national heroism. He was born in Farmington, New Mexico, to his adoring
parents, Nick and Sherry Fresques, on December 3, 1978. From his
close family bonds that he shared also with his younger brother Justin,
he developed the skills, discipline, and passion for life that
propelled him to success from graduating Farmington High School in 1997
with honors all the way to and through the US Air Force Academy.
He was deeply loved by his family, admired by his community, and
fiercely defended by all who were fortunate enough to call Jeremy
“friend.”

After graduation he was
accepted for the Special Forces branch of the Air Force, where he
served as an outstanding Assistant Team Leader for the 23rd Special
Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida. Jeremy was the kind of guy
who could never be happy without a physical challenge, but he also
prized the opportunities that Combat Control afforded him to inspire
those for whom he was responsible. Along the way, Jeremy married
Lindsey Shaw, on March 13, 2004. Their time together was cut
regrettably short by Jeremy’s death on Memorial Day (30 May)
2005. He was killed in an aircraft crash, in an Iraqi plane, with
one Iraqi and three other US Air Force operatives.

For his honorable military
conduct and selfless sacrifice, Capt Jeremy Fresques was awarded the
bronze star medal with valor. His family and country have established
memorials in his honor both at Arlington National Cemetery in
Washington DC and Sunland Memorial Park in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information or to donate; Contact Sherry Fresques sfresques@gmail.com or mail check to; 3580 Country Club Dr. Show Low, AZ 85901